What Is a Truly Good Deal
Hashgacha Pratis | February 21, 2026
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What Is a Truly Good Deal

Hashgacha Pratis | February 21, 2026

A precious Yid relates:

My father shlit”a, who lives in Williamsburg, just retired after forty years of teaching Torah to young children. Throughout those years he kept the same daily schedule: In the morning he would teach, and in the afternoon he worked in the diamond exchange.

When people asked him, “What do you do?” He would answer simply: “In the morning I deal with diamonds, and in the afternoon I deal with stones.”

I am inspired to know that there is a Yid who understands what is truly a diamond and what is just a stone, what is truly an expensive pearl in contrast to a simple stone with a borrowed name of prestige.

Everything in the world has its true name. Its true name is its essence, its internal point.

B’siyata diShmaya, we have very big, exciting news: The Hashgachah Pratis newsletter is going to start coming out weekly, in double format of eight pages.

Newsletter is a borrowed name. The real name is Projector Lamp – a great light that shines into all the corners.

The essence of this newsletter is that it gives chizuk and mindfulness, bequeathing true peace and serenity, and shedding light in the depth of the neshamah of every Yid.

The “distribution” of this newsletter is also a borrowed term. The real name should be “mashpia – positive influence,” for this newsletter showers hundreds of Yidden with the life-giving dew of emunah.

“Business,” as used to describe, for example, a real estate business, is likewise a borrowed term. A true business is the newsletter you hold in your hand: a small investment in this world, with tremendous benefits in the World to Come.

The greatest investment is distribution of this pamphlet. With one small act, one can bring emunah to fifty additional homes!

Fifty families means hundreds of people. There are hundreds of people who come closer to Hashem in your merit!

If to date we have reached hundreds of thousands of readers, we now hope to reach over a million. And that depends on you.

Take part in this initiative with us. Call our center of distribution at *6716, extension 4, and become an influencer for our generation!

Gut Shabbat
Pinchas Shefer
ד"בס

A precious Yid relates:

My father shlit”a, who lives in Williamsburg, just retired after forty years of teaching Torah to young children. Throughout those years he kept the same daily schedule: In the morning he would teach, and in the afternoon he worked in the diamond exchange.

When people asked him, “What do you do?” He would answer simply: “In the morning I deal with diamonds, and in the afternoon I deal with stones.”

I am inspired to know that there is a Yid who understands what is truly a diamond and what is just a stone, what is truly an expensive pearl in contrast to a simple stone with a borrowed name of prestige.

Everything in the world has its true name. Its true name is its essence, its internal point.

B’siyata diShmaya, we have very big, exciting news: The Hashgachah Pratis newsletter is going to start coming out weekly, in double format of eight pages.

Newsletter is a borrowed name. The real name is Projector Lamp – a great light that shines into all the corners.

The essence of this newsletter is that it gives chizuk and mindfulness, bequeathing true peace and serenity, and shedding light in the depth of the neshamah of every Yid.

The “distribution” of this newsletter is also a borrowed term. The real name should be “mashpia – positive influence,” for this newsletter showers hundreds of Yidden with the life-giving dew of emunah.

“Business,” as used to describe, for example, a real estate business, is likewise a borrowed term. A true business is the newsletter you hold in your hand: a small investment in this world, with tremendous benefits in the World to Come.

The greatest investment is distribution of this pamphlet. With one small act, one can bring emunah to fifty additional homes!

Fifty families means hundreds of people. There are hundreds of people who come closer to Hashem in your merit!

If to date we have reached hundreds of thousands of readers, we now hope to reach over a million. And that depends on you.

Take part in this initiative with us. Call our center of distribution at *6716, extension 4, and become an influencer for our generation!

Gut Shabbat
Pinchas Shefer
ד"בס

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